Discussions
NUTS
•Totally changing what they’re doing
•Bipsat
•Going to an approach which allows them to do the whole life cycle, but not launching
–From scratch and development
–Through mission design
–Three weeks on the first Bipsat
•Doing parallel development on a CubeSat
Status on project
•Satellite bus update
–R(ough) O(rder) of M(agnitude) offers
•Goal: informal clarifications done and help to us to make requirements
–Status
•OpenCosmos: provided
•GOMSpace: old provided w/o details – communication and clarification ongoing
•ISISpace: not yet received – communication and clarification ongoing
•ClydeSpace: not yet received – communication ongoing
–Public tender
•Documentation started
•Establishing timeline critical
Signal Processing algorithm + tests
•Signal processing algorithm
–Still some things not working as expected
–Focusing mostly on acquisition and making the camera driver work
•Need to do test before Hopavågen test to determine optimal optical settings
–26th of February to 2nd of March?
•Hopavågen test:
•SOI test:
–Probably not much we can see at that test with our camera
–Pointless to go?
–This is the California test in May – but will require lots of preparation from Joao and others
•Our own test:
–Maybe include Milica’s students?
Communication status
1.Ground station
•UHF: 430 MHz. VHF: 148 MHz
•Now only RX: fix problema (something up with the time signals)
•Buy S-band
2.Comm. parameters and implications
•Diagram
3.Frequency allocation
•Roger sent an email but no reply
•Egil has some ideas
4.Discussions
•What to buy/develop
•Frequency bands: S-band /UHF/VHF
Other tech stuff
1.Trade-off between UHF/VHF and S-band
2.Need an optics student to do sensitivity analysis
1.Functional
2.Thermal
3.Vibrational
–NUTS could assist in finding someone, but we have to follow them up
–Evelyn will specify the idea and NUTS will help with posters and stuff (Idea by February 19th)
3.Agree on when we’re doing risk analysis workshop
–I’ll make a doodle for one of the working days
4.Stabilization gimbal for balloon test
–Let’s discuss!
•What’s the expected motion of the balloon?
•There might be some stabilization for the yaw motion of the balloon
–Buy two (one for balloon and one for drone)
–Mariusz will look into this (update February 19th)
5.Decide which camera to fly
1.Hopavågen:
•V5
2.Balloon
•V5 – need another?